Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie conferred with Egypt's Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, looked over U.S. troop installations, spoke to U.S. soldiers with amiable profanity: "I just want to say I'm damned glad to see you. God bless you and give 'em hell." He regretted he could not give U.S. correspondents the latest baseball news (see p. 50). When he rebuked the strict Mideast censorship a reporter cried, "Thanks...
While going or coming he talked with General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, and with wise old Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa. He had an audience with King Farouk (see p. 66), a chat with Nahas Pasha, Egyptian Premier, and the Shah of Persia. And the old (67) war horse could not be kept from the front. He flew west into the desert, changed into an armored car, got within four miles of the famous "Hill of Jesus," had to be argued out of going to the edge...
...Lawrence and King Feisal. Around him Premier el Solh gathered a strong Cabinet and prepared to hold a free election for the Presidency and Parliament. And in Cairo, Premier el Solh has another friend even more potent than Fighting Frenchman Catroux: Egypt's roving-eyed Premier, Nahas Pasha...
...from disturbing was the political situation which exploded in the midst of Rommel's advance. Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha and his old friend and Finance Minister, Makram Ebeid Pasha, broke up in a thunderous...
...opposition bloc which Makram set up within the Wafd Party. Nahas was still sitting on the lid, unshaken, still carrying out a policy of 1) maintaining the integrity and independence of Egypt and 2) sticking to the letter and spirit of the cordial Anglo-Egyptian Alliance. Last week, Nahas Pasha's Egypt maintained a sphinxlike calm...